automated installation with perl?
 

Hi there,
I am making some scripts to automaticly build and install linux-software. (gcc,kernel,binutils, etc.) I have made a command to extract the packages, but how can I check if I can re-use my already extracted source-archives?

Regards Lars

What's the purpose of your scripts? Who is the intended audience?
For example, are you building cross compilers to build software for embedded platforms?
If not, why not just install the compiler provided by your Linux distro?

To build a cross-compiler, you may want to check the crosstool-NG toolchain building project.
There are also some others.

As for a direct answer to your question, most packages have targets for 'make' like 'clean',
'distclean', 'mostlyclean' or 'realclean' to restore the directory.
If you're not confident of the results, just blow away the directory (rm -rf dir) and untar it again.

The safe method is not to re-use the source.
For system files like glibc, gcc, kernel, binutils :
Do not ever re-use the source code.

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Hey Ken and Knud,

Thanks for your answers. You are probably right that I ought to remove the sorce-dir for every build. I am making some scripts to compile my own distrobution. https://sourceforge.net/projects/dklinux/